Word: failed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Athens, during 1890-91, and made an extensive trip in the Peloponnesus in company with several eminent archaeologists. In his lecture this evening he will give a popular account of this journey, which will be illustrated by the stereopticon. The lecture is open to the public, and cannot fail to be both interesting and instructive, not only to classical students, but to others as well...
Among the opportunities offered to Harvard men outside of their college curriculum, perhaps the most remarkable is that for hearing music. This is an opportunity of which many of the students take advantage, but which very many others fail to recognize. For a number of years past there have been given a series of six or eight orchestral concerts in Sanders Theatre by the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and lately the Kneisel String Quartette have taken to giving chamber concerts in Brattle Hall. To say that the height of perfection in orchestral and chamber music is reached at these concerts...
...meet it. We come to a difficulty in life and at the same time we acquire the energy to overcome it. Like a stream which, when wending along, meets a seemingly impassable barrier, summons all its force and pushes its way through. As we look forward in life we fail to recognize the resources of God, the resources of the world, and our own resources. We should however trust to these and not dread what the future has in store...
...subject than can be gained from a very careful verbal explanation. The Scottish Geographical Magazine also contains very good maps which, mounted on cardboard make a very useful collection. Photographs, when they can be had, are an admirable means of illustration, for they add just what maps and diagrams fail to show, that is, a correct view of the thing itself. Typographical models are also very useful in this same way, but are usually very expensive...
...compulsion to impart all their knowledge; Nation, XVI, 234. - 12) They could not be expected to furnish detailed information on demand; Morrill, 424.- (3) They would not be listened to when advocating measures repugnant to Congress - (4) Written reports furnish better basis for sound legislation, because poor speakers would fail to give clear expositions, while good speakers could mislead; Morrill, 422. - (5) The committee system would continue to control legislation: Hart, Atlantic, LVII. 380; Hoar, North Amer. Review, CXXVIII, 121-2; Nation, XVI, 235. - (c) Responsibility would not be centralized, for unless cabinet directed all legislation - (1) Private members would...